IBM MQ

Oct 5, 2020

Streaming XML messages from IBM MQ into Kafka into MongoDB

Let’s imagine we have XML data on a queue in IBM MQ, and we want to ingest it into Kafka to then use downstream, perhaps in an application or maybe to stream to a NoSQL store like MongoDB.

Note	This same pattern for ingesting XML will work with other connectors such as JMS and ActiveMQ.

Oct 1, 2020

IBM MQ on Docker - Channel was blocked

Running IBM MQ in a Docker container and the client connecting to it was throwing repeated Channel was blocked errors.

Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt is a Principal DevEx Engineer at Decodable. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.